Swing didn't pick up until the late 20s. You're ahead of the game!

Cheers to this!

Agreed

Love that! Thanks for dancing with us :)

Congrats!

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A SWING IN YOUR STEP

It reminded me to the simpsons news :)

SWING RHYTHM👹

LMAO

I still cant do it.lol

The 6-count dance pattern and the 4 count music pattern realign every 12 bars (music) / every 8 dance moves. 12 bars is (incidentally?) the typical length of a blues music pattern.

@@patrickd3470 Thank you for your input! Problematic with this would be that people should have easy access to learning to hear the immediate bar structure and phrasing, not be confused until something aligns after some 12 bars (which they are not aware of anyway). Also, there's lots of music regularly structured over 16 bars, so that wouldn't help much. I experience that many people I meet for the first time are used to simply ignore the fact that they don't understand it and this is a large scale systematic.

hence the definition of SWING RHYTHM

caveman123ization yes but this dance is a 6 count dance but it has 8 counts moves also

No, it is a 2-count dance with varrying weight changes and triplets (swing) to it. TWO COUNTS !!! Swing music is usually (musicality) grouped (thematic) in 4x 8 counts, so that you have 32 counts before the phrase is over. But, you dont need to COUNT those as there are hints when 8 counts have passed. And you can fill up these counts anyway you want, e.g. with 8 count patterns (easiest for beginners so you always hit that end of the phrase), but you can also go five 6-counts and add a 2 count filler, e.g. stop and bounce standing (easy!) ... And you can also create your own patterns going from a standard 6 count tuck-turn adding a rotation into an 8 count tuck turn, or even two more rotations making it a 10 count pattern ... You can add and often times also leave out stuff this way, because you are only really ever bound to the 2 counts: weight change steps (tripple step changes your weight from left to right or vice versa) and weight stays steps (rock steps will leave your weight on the foot your started the RS with). Find out which belongs to which group, as we also have these basic steps: kick steps, kick-ball change, kick hold, walk walk, run run, groove walk, tap steps ... and their respected variations in front, back, cross etc.... Read this if you want a more detailed analysis: thehomeofhappyfeet.com/8-count-dance-6-count-rhythms/

Its just another way to feel the rhythm. The count is important theroy wise. But in practical use; you can use 1234, ABCD, 1337, LLLEEERRRROOOYYYY JEEENKKKIINNNSSS, etc. Pretty much anything can be a count. Counting steps, leg lifts, blinks. You get the idea.

They’re only counting to 6 because it’s a six-step move. They’re not referring to the beat of the song (which is what the 8 count is). All music can be broken into 8 counts except the waltz, although technically that can too (there are eight triplets in a phrase of a waltz). So if they were using an 8 count, it’d be confusing because there are only 6 steps. In real life they’d either fill in those two remaining counts or do four in a row= three 8 counts & fill in the last 8 count of the phrase. A phrase = four 8 counts.

Nothing at all. counting off from 5 is normal practice for dancers. We often break the music down into 8 counts because our movements are more likely to fill 8 complete counts, not a 4-count bar as musicians do. However, when we work with musicians we usually count off 1,2,3,4.

@@iLindy well thank you for that always good to learn

The musicians took 1, 2, 3, 4 so...

Four of these would fill three 8 counts (6 measures) so you’d have one more 8 count (2 measures) to fill with whatever you wanted. The 6 is referring to the number of steps, not the beat. Does that make sense? Like if you count 1 2 3&4 5&6 (the way they were) four times, then count a regular 8 count, you’d be able to tell you just filled the entire phrase.

What? Just because a guy is teaching that means he's mansplaining? 🙄

I know this is 5 months old. But you can slow down play back. It helped me!

Not to mention this is kinda slow and i'm a beginner too

How can you not see? They also break it down with the names of the steps... rock step, triple step, triple step. Look those up if you don’t know what they are.